Figure 57. This is an example
of
a wire rope that has jumped a sheave and failed in tension
over a small radius. The deformation is in the shape
of
a
curl-from
being bent around the
small radius.
Figure 58. This is the appearance
of
a typical tension break on a test sample broken in a tensile
machine Note, not all strands have failed as the load relaxes when the initial few stands and/or
the core fail.
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